Chinese media silent on 40th anniversary of Cultur

[amanondeathrow]

BEIJING (AFP) - China's state-controlled media have been silent over the 40th anniversary of the start of the tumultuous Cultural Revolution, still seen as a taboo subject that haunts the country.


Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao last week repeated the official line that the movement was "10 years of catastrophe," but stopped short of elaborating.


Liberalist intellectual and veteran Communist Party member He Jiadong said the present regime, under which people are still not enjoying democracy and political freedom, was only a continuation of Mao's autocratic system.

It was therefore afraid of bring up the historical issue out of fear that ordinary Chinese people would doubt its legitimacy, he said.

AFP (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/chinapoliticshistoryrevolutionmedia)

[Janus]

This taboo that the new source calls it is simply due to the fact that it's still a sore wound for many Chinese. Most Chinese families were affected in one way or another by the Cultural revolution. The effects of the Cultural Revolution still haven't gone away as can be seen by the so called "Lost Generation" who are former Red Guards who lack the education and edge to find work and get ahead in modern China. :(

[YKTMX]

The whole affair was plainly a complete disaster for China and the people involved, either Red Guards or those people terrorized by them.

No wonder the Chinese Stalinists want to avoid the subject.

[LSD]

Yet another example of the ideological bankruptcy of Stalinism/Maoism/"Revisionism".

When Mao calls for cultural "revolution", the CCP celebrates it; Mao dies and suddenly it's "taboo". :rolleyes:

I wonder what the next PRC "embarrassment" will be? :lol:

[chimx]

they should be happy about it. its attacks on communist bureaucracy made the transition to capitalism significantly easier than that of russia.

[Hiero]

Originally posted by [email protected] 18 2006, 11:31 AM
When Mao calls for cultural "revolution", the CCP celebrates it; Mao dies and suddenly it's "taboo". :rolleyes:


That's pretty ignorat. Many in the CCP were targets of the cultural revolution.

[Janus]

they should be happy about it. its attacks on communist bureaucracy made the transition to capitalism significantly easier than that of russia.
Not really. Why should the people be happy about it when they or their family members were probably harmed during it. The Cultural Revolution didn't make the transition easier as pro-Mao officials took up the new positions that became open. The transition wouldn't happen for ten more years. In fact, it may never have happened at all since Deng Xiaoping was knocked down during this period.

[chimx]

i disagree. in the long term it significantly eased the transition of decollectivization of rural china. its one of the reasons that china decollectivized so easily, while russia has been bogged down by a bureaucratic apparatus still in place. the cultural revolution streesed decentralization and debureaucratization, amonst other things.

i'll find some citations on this later.

[M-Mann]

Originally posted by [email protected] 18 2006, 12:31 AM
Yet another example of the ideological bankruptcy of Stalinism/Maoism/"Revisionism".

When Mao calls for cultural "revolution", the CCP celebrates it; Mao dies and suddenly it's "taboo". :rolleyes:

I wonder what the next PRC "embarrassment" will be? :lol:
The current bs Market Socialism thing that claim they have right now? That's what I see as their next big mistake.

Seriously this Market Socialism thing they have is just laughable, Deng Xiaoping was an idiot.

[Janus]

in the long term it significantly eased the transition of decollectivization of rural china.
Not really, collectivization was strengthened after the Cultural revolution in 1968 due to the "To the Countryside" program. Decollectivization was a grassroots started policy that didn't begin until Deng.


The current bs Market Socialism thing that claim they have right now? That's what I see as their next big mistake.
It's not an embarrasment for them at all. Deng ushered the PRC into a new era of prosperity.

[最后的共]

文化大革命伤害了很多年轻的心,谁再希望来一次,那中国就彻底的垮了

[kaaos_af]

Originally posted by [email protected] 19 2006, 07:25 PM

Not really, collectivization was strengthened after the Cultural revolution in 1968 due to the "To the Countryside" program. Decollectivization was a grassroots started policy that didn't begin until Deng.

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It's not an embarrasment for them at all. Deng ushered the PRC into a new era of prosperity.
-While it may have strengthen collectvisation in the short-term, the Cultural Revolution (or, as MIM people say, the GPCR) strengthened the Chinese bureaucracy, thus making it easier for Deng to decollectivise.

You try telling your average 50c an hour Chinese worker that she is living in a 'new era of prosperity'.

[Janus]

You try telling your average 50c an hour Chinese worker that she is living in a 'new era of prosperity'.
Actually, immediately following the Deng reforms, many of the farmers were doing very well.


文化大革命伤害了很多年轻的心,谁再希望来一次,那中国就彻底的垮了
This is what "Last Work" was trying to say: The Cultural Revolution harmde many young people, if someone wanted it to happen again, then China would collapse."